Doctrine DBAL & ORM Bundle for the Symfony Framework.
The Doctrine Project is the home of a selected set of PHP libraries primarily focused on providing persistence services and related functionality. Its prize projects are a Object Relational Mapper and the Database Abstraction Layer it is built on top of. You can read more about the projects below or view a list of all projects.
Object relational mapper (ORM) for PHP that sits on top of a powerful database abstraction layer (DBAL). One of its key features is the option to write database queries in a proprietary object oriented SQL dialect called Doctrine Query Language (DQL), inspired by Hibernates HQL. This provides developers with a powerful alternative to SQL that maintains flexibility without requiring unnecessary code duplication.
DBAL is a powerful database abstraction layer with many features for database schema introspection, schema management and PDO abstraction.
The documentation is rendered on the symfony.com website. The source of the documentation is available in the Resources/docs folder.